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To: SeekAndFind

The vast casualty numbers from the Civil War should be enough, plus the Reconstruction after the Civil War. Then we have the Civil Rights Act etc.

I think enough is enough.


15 posted on 02/27/2019 8:40:52 AM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: SolidRedState
The vast casualty numbers from the Civil War should be enough, plus the Reconstruction after the Civil War. Then we have the Civil Rights Act etc.

And the Great Depression in between that equalized. My paternal great-grandfather lost the family farm in 1933. They were not wealthy people, but hard-working farmers. And don't forget the war-torn South and the carpet-bagging abuse post Civil War. The South has already paid a very heavy price for their sins of slavery.

I have seen evidence that an ancestor 7 generations back owned one or two slaves. He had 13 children. If there was any slave-holding wealth remaining in my family, it was gone at least 3 or 4 generations ago.

While slavery was a tragedy and just flat wrong, the truth is, African-Americans have a far more comfortable life and opportunity than they would have had they not been brought to America against their will. Like many things in life and history, great blessings often accrue out of injustice and tragedy. I am very sorry it happened, but I assure you that no benefit from it accrued to me. Instead of re-sawing the sawdust of the past for political advantage, let's engage in constructive and productive conversation and work. Re-hashing slavery and reparations will get us all nothing.

51 posted on 02/27/2019 9:14:13 AM PST by RatRipper
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